Wyatt's Hopping

Tonight Jonathan is gone. At 6:15p, we had ice cream. At 6:30p, we all headed upstairs. Henry showered, and after a serious (but hopefully productive) discipline session, I put him to bed. I bathed Tessa and Myles. Put Tessa to bed. Wyatt took a shower while Myles played in the pack-n-play in our room. Then I had Wyatt look at books while I read Myles some books, and then put Myles to bed. Then I came to get Wyatt. I noted in my head, verbatim... "Sweet... it's 7:56p, three down and one to go. I can be exercising by 8:15p!"

But OH Wyatt. My little bunny rabbit. He hops EVERYWHERE. You might think I'm kidding, but I'm not. He hops, jogs, skips, gallops... I'm not sure he knows how to simply walk. So... I let him finish his book while I folded some laundry. Then I said, "Go potty one more time before you go to bed." He hops like a bunny into my bathroom. He wipes out on the tile. He face plants the toilet.

-----Now mind you, after his shower, he was hopping with wet feet on the tile. And I said, again, verbatim... "Listen bud, one of these days you're going to slip and bust your head open." (I feel like my mom when I say stuff like that!)-----

Instant blood is pouring out of his mouth. He's screaming like a crazy animal, and I'm just trying to figure out if he knocked his teeth out or what!!! I HATE emergencies like this... esp when I'm on my own! I finally figure out he popped himself pretty good on the upper lip and banged up his gums, but his teeth seem in tact. We get a cold rag, and I have to make him sit down so he can't see himself in the mirror. For some reason, the more he looks at himself, the more he screams. After about 22 minutes of crying, hyperventilating, panic, inability to talk... He FINALLY calms down!! I give him some tylenol. We have a short discussion on how we handle ourselves when injuries occur. I reassure him it's OK to cry, but that we really need to work on the screaming and breathing. Not sure how much he followed that... but I guess time will tell :) He requests a cold rag to sleep with. But, "Mom, I don't want to have to hold the rag while I sleep. I want to lay flat enough so the rag just balances on my face." (He's always very specific about stuff like this.) Ok... this took some work, but we got it figured out. And he and Chip happily went to sleep w/in minutes.

At 8:49p - I start the exercise video :)

Leprechauns

We take things pretty seriously here on St. Patrick's Day -- the boys leave gold in all of our shoes the night before in hopes that Leprechauns will visit. B/c we have the luck o' the Irish, they always do :) Thank goodness for those Irish roots!!

*Gold in the shoes the night before...*

*Every person in the house has to have gold in their shoe*

*The Leprechauns make everything green... the muffins, the eggs...*

*At breakfast, we decided this little man could be working with the Leprechauns!*

*Evidence the Leprechauns actually came... they left a muffin in the trap!*

Have I mentioned...

 … well, a few things really… did I mention that we have a girl in the house? It's SO fun. I think she is the most fun for me (esp all of those middle-of-the-night hours we spend together!), although Wyatt did tell me today he thought she had a beautiful smile and in this picture on top, Henry actually dressed her. So I guess I'm not the only one having fun :)





And did I mention we had a snowstorm just last week… then about 3 days later it was 61 degrees. So fun to be having snowball fights wearing short sleeves… at least that is the boys opinion. Our opinion is that it's not great hearing our sump pump working every 45 seconds! Yikes!










































And Tessa girl is eating some foods these days… always love this stage… well, kind of… not really, but since she is most likely my last, I'm actually enjoying it a lot more!!

My Babies

These two are keeping me young and giving me my first gray hairs all at the same time!!! ;)

Monday night DESSERT night

Jonathan is in class late every Monday night. The boys and I mourn his absence by having dessert on Mondays before bedtime... Makes us all feel better :)

2nd Street Market

Took a family outing to the 2nd Street Public Market/Trader Joes this morning. The market is downtown Dayton - we get our local raw honey and local maple syrup there. We shared a pretzel the size of our head! We even saw a train on the way out. And of course, we love Trader Joes. With the new budget, we still go once a week, but are now much more strict about sticking to the list :) The kids love finding the cow... b/c they get a sucker... all organic and cane sugar... so much healthier, right?!? Ha ;)